We’re back live and in Paris 🇫🇷 with our next guest, Johannes Fruehauf. We talk about reinventing the co-working labs for biotech startups, the difficulties of doing business in Europe, profitability in biotech, and much more (see timestamps below).

💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Johannes is the President, CEO, and founder of BioLabs, the biggest “incubator”, or as they like to call it “co-working laboratory”, platform for biotech startups in the world. Today they have over 14 locations, including 3 in Europe (2 in Paris and 1 in Heidelberg). He is also the founder of LabCentral and a general partner at Mission BioCapital. 

📜 TRANSCRIPT

Read the full transcript here: https://tinyurl.com/mt9dva8u

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⏰ TIMESTAMPS

[00:00:00 ] Intro

[00:00:39 ] Welcome to this new episode

[00:02:19 ] How & why reinvent biotech incubators

[00:14:14 ] The competitors

[00:17:41 ] Entrepreneurship in Europe

[00:22:11 ] The Challenges of doing business in Europe

[00:29:37 ] People make it happen

[00:36:51 ] BioLabs in Asia and Japan

[00:41:46 ] Is a higher risk tolerance a good thing for everyone?

[00:48:22 ] Money: being profitable in life sciences and not raising money if you don't have to.

[00:59:15 ] Synergies between real estate and investing

[01:14:01 ] Should you get a business coach?

[01:25:52 ] Thanks for listening